In your EPQ project you may want to focus on one of the following questions:

• What was ancient rhetoric? And how far did the debate on ancient Greek and Latin rhetoric reflect the political nature of Classical Athens and of Republican Rome?
• Why does rhetoric matter today? And how far has the ancient debate on rhetoric influenced our modern understanding of the art of political persuasion?

• Demosthenes, Orations
• Isocrates, Antidosis
• Cicero, Orator
• Cicero, De Oratore
• Cicero, Orations
• Quintilian, Instituto Oratoria

The best way to look at the material culture of ancient rhetoric, is to look at the context in which speeches took place and how their design reflects what kind of audience ancient speakers had and the degree of interaction between speakers and audience. 

• Classical Athens
  •  Check out for the role of the Pnyx in Classical Athens
• Republican Rome
  • The Digital Roman Forum (open link).
  • Check for the Curia, the Curiae Veteres, the Curiae Novae, the Rostra
• Imperial Rome and the Roman empire
  • The Digital Augustan Rome (open link): check for the Augustan transformation of the Roman Forum
  • The Digital Roman Forum (open link)
  • Look at buildings where political and legal speeches were performed in Rome, such as the basilicas in the Roman Forum and in Trajan's Forum, and the curia
  • Look at buildings for public speeches and performances in the Roman empire, such as the odeia

Roman artefacts from the Great North Museum, Newcastle

• Roman imperial aureus of Trajan (open link) showing the Basilica Ulpia in Rome, a building that was part of the Forum of Trajan and was used, among other uses, also as a law curt.

Ancient rhetoric

• Go to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (https://plato.stanford.edu), search for the word “rhetoric” and look at the following results:
  • Aristotle’s rhetoric https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-rhetoric/
  • Plato on rhetoric https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-rhetoric/
  • Al-Farabi comments on Aristotle’s rhetoric: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al-farabi/
• Berry, D.H. and Erskine, A. eds., 2010. Form and function in Roman oratory. Cambridge University Press.
• Brock, R., 2013. Greek political imagery from Homer to Aristotle. A&C Black.
• Clarke, M.L., 2002. Rhetoric at Rome: a historical survey. Routledge.
• Connolly, J., 2009. The state of speech: rhetoric and political thought in ancient Rome. Princeton University Press.
• Dominik, W. and Hall, J. eds., 2010. A companion to Roman rhetoric (Vol. 74). John Wiley & Sons.
• Elsner, J. and Meyer, M. eds., 2014. Art and rhetoric in Roman culture. Cambridge University Press.
• Fantham, E., 2004. The Roman world of Cicero's De oratore. Oxford University Press.
• Fredal, J., 2006. Rhetorical Action in Ancient Athens: Persuasive Artistry from Solon to Demosthenes. SIU Press.
• Hunt, P., 2010. War, peace, and alliance in Demosthenes' Athens. Cambridge University Press.
• Kennedy, G. A. (2008). The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World: 300 BC-AD 300 (Vol. 2). Wipf and Stock Publishers.
• McCoy, M., 2007. Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists. Cambridge University Press.
• Morstein-Marx, R., 2004. Mass oratory and political power in the late Roman Republic. Cambridge University Press.
• Pernot, L., 2005. Rhetoric in antiquity. CUA Press.
• Schofield, M., 2006. Plato: political philosophy. Oxford University Press.
• Walker, J., 2000. Rhetoric and poetics in antiquity. Oxford University Press.
• Webb, R., 2016. Ekphrasis, imagination and persuasion in ancient rhetorical theory and practice. Routledge.
• Worthington, I. ed., 2010. A companion to Greek rhetoric. John Wiley & Sons.
• Worthington, I. ed., 2010. A companion to Greek rhetoric. John Wiley & Sons.
• Yunis, H., 1996. Taming democracy: models of political rhetoric in classical Athens. Cornell University Press

Modern perspective on rhetoric

• Dalton, R.J. and Klingemann, H.D., 2007. The Oxford handbook of political behavior (No. 32.019. 5). Oxford University Press
• Urbinati, N., 2002. Mill on democracy: from the Athenian polis to representative government. University of Chicago Press.

• Perseus digital library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
• The Grove Art Online: http://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/